A portable real-time EEG signal acquisition and tele-medicine system

Author(s):  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Shanshan Li ◽  
Yonghao Jing

Since electroencephalogram (EEG) signals contain a variety of physiological and pathological information, they are widely used in medical diagnosis, brain machine interface and other fields. The existing EEG apparatus are not perfect due to big size, high power consumption and using cables to transmit data. In this paper, a portable real-time EEG signal acquisition and tele-medicine system is developed in order to improve performance of EEG apparatus. The weak EEG signals are induced to the pre-processing circuits via a noninvasive method with bipolar leads. After multi-level amplifying and filtering, these signals are transmitted to DSP (TMS320C5509) to conduct digital filtering. Then, the EEG signals are displayed on the LCD screen and stored in the SD card so that they can be uploaded to the server through the internet. The server employs SQL Server database to manage patients’ information and to store data in disk. Doctors can download, look up and analyze patients’ EEG data using the doctor client. Experimental results demonstrate that the system can acquire weak EEG signals in real time, display the processed results, save data and carry out tele-medicine. The system can meet the requirement of the EEG signals’ quality, and are easy to use and carry.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 955-963
Author(s):  
Lixue Yuan ◽  
Yinyan Fan ◽  
Quanxi Gan ◽  
Huibin Feng

At present, neurophysiological signals used for neuro feedback are EEG (Electroencephalogram), functional magnetic resonance imaging. Among them, the acquisition of EEG signals has the advantages of non-invasive way with low cost. It has been widely used in brain-machine interface technology in recent years. Important progress has been made in rehabilitation and environmental control. However, neural feedback and brainmachine interface technology are completely similar in signal acquisition, signal feature extraction, and pattern classification. Therefore, the related research results of brain-machine interface can be used to closely cooperate with clinical needs to research and develop neural feedback technology based on EEG. Based on neurophysiology and brain-machine interface technology, this paper develops a neural feedback training system based on the acquisition and analysis of human EEG signals. Aiming at the autonomous rhythm components in the EEG signal, such as sensorimotor rhythm and alpha rhythm, the characteristic parameters are extracted through real-time EEG signal processing to generate feedback information, and the subject is self-regulated and trained from a physiological-psychological perspective by providing adjuvant treatment, a practical and stable treatment platform for the clinic.


Micromachines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Chin-Teng Lin ◽  
Chi-Hsien Liu ◽  
Po-Sheng Wang ◽  
Jung-Tai King ◽  
Lun-De Liao

A brain–computer interface (BCI) is a type of interface/communication system that can help users interact with their environments. Electroencephalography (EEG) has become the most common application of BCIs and provides a way for disabled individuals to communicate. While wet sensors are the most commonly used sensors for traditional EEG measurements, they require considerable preparation time, including the time needed to prepare the skin and to use the conductive gel. Additionally, the conductive gel dries over time, leading to degraded performance. Furthermore, requiring patients to wear wet sensors to record EEG signals is considered highly inconvenient. Here, we report a wireless 8-channel digital active-circuit EEG signal acquisition system that uses dry sensors. Active-circuit systems for EEG measurement allow people to engage in daily life while using these systems, and the advantages of these systems can be further improved by utilizing dry sensors. Moreover, the use of dry sensors can help both disabled and healthy people enjoy the convenience of BCIs in daily life. To verify the reliability of the proposed system, we designed three experiments in which we evaluated eye blinking and teeth gritting, measured alpha waves, and recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare our developed system with a standard Neuroscan EEG system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Zoran Šverko ◽  
Ivan Markovinović ◽  
Miroslav Vrankić ◽  
Saša Vlahinić

In this paper, EEG data processing was conducted in order to define the parameters for neurofeedback. A new survey was conducted based on a brief review of previous research. Two groups of participants were chosen: ADHD (3) and nonADHD (14). The main part of this study includes EEG signal data pre-processing and processing. We have outlined statistical features of observed EEG signals such as mean value, grand-mean value and their ratios. It can be concluded that an increase in grand-mean values of power theta-low beta ratio on Cz electrode gives confirmation of previous research. The value of alpha-delta power ratio higher than 1 on C3, Cz, P3, Pz, P4 in ADHD group is proposed as a new approach to classification. Based on these conclusions we will design a neurofeedback protocol as a continuation of this work.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-387
Author(s):  
Michael Gabriel Miranda ◽  
Renato Alberto Salinas ◽  
Ulrich Raff ◽  
Oscar Magna

The blinking of an eye can be detected in electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings and can be understood as a useful control signal in some information processing tasks. The detection of a specific pattern associated with the blinking of an eye in real time using EEG signals of a single channel has been analyzed. This study considers both theoretical and practical principles enabling the design and implementation of a system capable of precise real-time detection of eye blinks within the EEG signal. This signal or pattern is subject to considerable scale changes and multiple incidences. In our proposed approach, a new wavelet was designed to improve the detection and localization of the eye blinking signal. The detection of multiple occurrences of the blinking perturbation in the recordings performed in real-time operation is achieved with a window giving a time-limited projection of an ongoing analysis of the sampled EEG signal.


Author(s):  
Qingjun Wang ◽  
Zhendong Mu

AbstractIn order to solve the problem of traffic accidents caused by fatigue driving, the research of EEG signals is particularly important, which can timely and accurately determine the fatigue state and take corresponding measures. Effective fatigue improvement measures are an important research topic in the current scientific field. The purpose of this article is to use EEG signals to analyze fatigue driving and prevent the dangers and injuries caused by fatigue driving. We designed the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal acquisition model to collect the EEG signal of the experimenter, and then removed the noise through the algorithm of Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and independent component analysis (ICA). On the basis of in-depth analysis and full understanding, we learned about the EEG signal of the driver at different driving times and different landscape roads, and provided some references for the study of music in relieving driving fatigue. The results of the study show that in the presence of music, the driver can keep the EEG signal active for more than 2 h, while in the absence of music, the driver’s EEG signal is active for about 1.5 h. Under different road conditions, the driver’s EEG signal activity is not consistent. The β wave and (α + θ)/β ratio of the driver in mountainous roads and grassland road landscape environments are highly correlated with driving time, and β wave is negatively correlated with driving time, and (α + θ)/β is positively correlated with driving time. In addition, the accumulation of changes in the two indicators is also strongly correlated with driving time.


2012 ◽  
Vol 182-183 ◽  
pp. 1101-1104
Author(s):  
Xue Yang Sun ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Cheng Lin Xiao

Kingview software combined with the SQL Server database are applied in the data storage of monitoring system of the automatic coating production lines of solar collector tubes. The system can acquisition parameter the critical process parameters on-site in real time, the data after the necessary processing are stored in the database, as well as operations such as tracking of the history of process parameters, alarm queries, generating reports etc. can be realized in the corresponding pages that use the SQL functions contained in the Kingview.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Mahshad Ouchani ◽  
Shahriar Gharibzadeh ◽  
Mahdieh Jamshidi ◽  
Morteza Amini

This study will concentrate on recent research on EEG signals for Alzheimer’s diagnosis, identifying and comparing key steps of EEG-based Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection, such as EEG signal acquisition, preprocessing function extraction, and classification methods. Furthermore, highlighting general approaches, variations, and agreement in the use of EEG identified shortcomings and guidelines for multiple experimental stages ranging from demographic characteristics to outcomes monitoring for future research. Two main targets have been defined based on the article’s purpose: (1) discriminative (or detection), i.e., look for differences in EEG-based features across groups, such as MCI, moderate Alzheimer’s disease, extreme Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia, and stable normal elderly controls; and (2) progression determination, i.e., look for correlations between EEG-based features and clinical markers linked to MCI-to-AD conversion and Alzheimer’s disease intensity progression. Limitations mentioned in the reviewed papers were also gathered and explored in this study, with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the problems that need to be addressed in order to advance the use of EEG in Alzheimer’s disease science.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Hartoyo ◽  
Peter J. Cadusch ◽  
David T. J. Liley ◽  
Damien G. Hicks

AbstractElectroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive measure of brain electrical activity. Neural population models, where large numbers of interacting neurons are considered collectively as a macroscopic system, have long been used to understand features in EEG signals. By tuning dozens of input parameters describing the excitatory and inhibitory neuron populations, these models can reproduce prominent features of the EEG such as the alpha-rhythm. However, the inverse problem, of directly estimating the parameters from fits to EEG data, remains unsolved. Solving this multi-parameter non-linear fitting problem will potentially provide a real-time method for characterizing average neuronal properties in human subjects. Here we perform unbiased fits of a 22-parameter neural population model to EEG data from 82 individuals, using both particle swarm optimization and Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. We estimate how much is learned about individual parameters by computing Kullback-Leibler divergences between posterior and prior distributions for each parameter. Results indicate that only a single parameter, that determining the dynamics of inhibition, is directly identifiable, while other parameters have large, though correlated, uncertainties. We show that the eigenvalues of the Fisher information matrix are roughly uniformly spaced over a log scale, indicating that the model is sloppy, like many of the regulatory network models in systems biology. These eigenvalues indicate that the system can be modeled with a low effective dimensionality, with inhibition being prominent in driving system behavior.Author summaryElectroencephalography (EEG), where electrodes are used to measure electric potential on the outside of the scalp, provides a simple, non-invasive way to study brain activity. Physiological interpretation of features in EEG signals has often involved use of collective models of neural populations. These neural population models have dozens of input parameters to describe the properties of inhibitory and excitatory neurons. Being able to estimate these parameters by direct fits to EEG data holds the promise of providing a real-time non-invasive method of inferring neuronal properties in different individuals. However, it has long been impossible to fit these nonlinear, multi-parameter models effectively. Here we describe fits of a 22-parameter neural population model to EEG spectra from 82 different subjects, all exhibiting alpha-oscillations. We show how only one parameter, that describing inhibitory dynamics, is constrained by the data, although all parameters are correlated. These results indicate that inhibition plays a central role in the generation and modulation of the alpha-rhythm in humans.


Author(s):  
Zhendong Mu ◽  
Jianfeng Hu ◽  
Jinghai Yin

This study examined whether prefrontal brain region electroencephalography (EEG) can be used to detect driver's fatigue. The participants were 13 healthy university students with driving experience. They collected EEG experiments in a virtual driving environment, and divided the collected EEG data into normal state and fatigue state. Fuzzy entropy was used for feature extraction; SVM was used as a classification tool. FP1 and FP2 electrode EEG signal was selected from the subject's EEG signal as analysis object. When single electrode signal was used as feature, accuracy of FP1 was higher than FP2, and if mixing FP1 and FP2 as feature, the accuracy is the highest, the average accuracy is 0.85 by 10-fold cross-validation in Prefrontal brain region. Although the signal classification accuracy of the prefrontal brain region is not the highest, from a practical point, the EEG classification accuracy can be used to detect fatigue.


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